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October 18 2007


You can unpack your suitcase Mr Cox – that’d be Brian Cox, who played the character William Stryker in “X-Men 2” – you’re no longer required for “X-Men” prequel, “Wolverine.”

Fox didn’t want to foot the bill for the hefty CGI budget they would’ve needed to de-age you for the younger version of William Stryker; not when they’ve already spending a trough-load on shredding ten years off star Hugh Jackman’s face for it.

Instead, Liev Schreiber – becoming sort of a habit-man for replacing actors in already established series; especially younger versions of said characters. You’ll recall he played a young John Clark, the character played by Willem Dafoe in “Clear and Present Danger” in “The Sum of All Fears” a couple of years back –will don the deadly trousers of Wolverine’s arch-enemy.

The film also has a new official title too. It’ll be called “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” indicating there’ll be more ‘Origins’ tales to come – the first being the recently announced “Magneto” movie.

Oh, and it’s already got a release date: May 1, 2009.

Director Gavin Hood will start shooting in Australia before moving to New Zealand and, later, to New Orleans. Latter location is a clue that the storyline might include New Orleans-based character Gambit (who they’ve been trying to squeeze into the movies for years now), who is able to make objects explode and was a professional thief before joining the X-Men.

No doubt all you comic book fans are clawing to see this puppy…. Or rather, man-beast.


Gambit fans...are you reading this?!:D